Word: queenly
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...seven hills. There are Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, a glittering white mosque and a Hindu temple, each on its separate hilltop. Makerere College, the university of East Africa, occupies hill No. 5; on the sixth live 2,000 Britons, communing-or so it seems-with Kipling and Queen Victoria, whose spirits brood above the sahibs' hill. But the summit that matters most in Kampala and in all Buganda is No. 7. There, in his white palace, ringed with pacing sentries and a ten-foot-high stockade of elephant grass, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda got an urgent message...
State of Emergency. News of their ruler's exile hit the Baganda like a tropical rainstorm. The Kabaka's 300-lb. sister, Princess Zalwanga, collapsed and died; his pretty young Nabagereka (Queen) retired with her ladies in waiting and sent out a message that she was "bewildered and grief-stricken." Buganda nationalists, who have previously attacked the Kabaka as a playboy and British puppet, quickly reversed themselves and cried for "our beloved King." In the Great Lukiko (native council), Prime Minister Paulo Kavuma announced that he had radioed London, beseeching the British government to please send Mutesa home...
Last October fiery William Kelly, Republican candidate for Parliament in Northern Ireland and a Roman Catholic, made a promise to his constituents. "I will not," he declared, "take the oath of allegiance to a foreign Queen of a bastard nation." When elected, Kelly refused to take his seat. Last week, in a North Irish court, he was found guilty of sedition, and given the alternative of posting a $280 bond for five years' good behavior or going to jail for a year. Cantankerous Kelly chose jail. But, said he, "I will never submit to wearing prison garb...
Died. Jorge Negrete, 42, top-drawer singing star of Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City...
Simone de Beauvoir had not seen so many stars since Jean-Paul Sartre crowned her Queen of Existentialism with the canopy of a bed one bibulous night in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946). Now her plane from Paris was over New York, whose myriad lights were so brilliant that it was as if "all the stars in the sky were rolled out over the ground." Still dazzled when the plane landed, the queen alighted, sped into the city, and, feeling estranged, could not quite believe she was there. "This city and Paris." she wrote in her diary, "were not linked...